Operations of the Hurricane Hunters in the Caribbean. Interior of a United States Air Force Lockheed WC-130 Hercules aircraft in flight. A dropsonde operator speaking into a microphone. A pilot, a co-pilot and an engineer in the cockpit of the airplane.
Opening scene shows a Navy anti-submarine warfare SH-3A helicopter, of ASM Squadron HS-11, from Carrier Anti-Submarine Air Group 52 (CVSG-52) on the Carrier USS Wasp (CVS-18). It is filmed from another nearby helicopter as it executes a "dippiing sonar" procedure during fleet maneuvers in the Caribbean Sea. .It is seen lowering an ASW tranducer, into the water by means of a cable. The helicopter remains in a hover throughout the sequence, with the sonor buoy deployed.
C-130 aircraft with opened cargo hatch and supplies being loaded. A C-130 cargo plane taxies and another one takes off in the background. U.S. troops march on airfield. U.S. Air Force personnel help a Catholic Priest arriving at airfield on a school bus. Foreign nationals are being evacuated and supplies are being brought in by U.S. Air Force Cargo planes. Long lines of C-130s taxi for takeoff. In West Africa, view from cockpit of a C-130 and from inside the cargo hold as the aircraft deploys extraction parachute with connected cargo of grain for the local population suffering severe drought. People gather around a town center square, where grain is being distributed. Woman carries basket of grain on her head.